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"In the back, soldiers sat on benches, facing one another, rifles laid casually across their laps. They looked young and clean shaven and eager in brand-new helmets, with medals glinting on their gray-green uniforms. Young most of all. Not monsters; just boys, really."

"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."

2 chapters in and I'm reminded why this was my favorite book in the series on my first read. So much Harry and Dumbledore time!!

"She thanked me for helping. I thanked her for letting me. She said, 'You helped me see who I really was.' I said, 'You showed me to begin with.'"

"people rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it."

"Why do people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?"

"Give more. Give what you didn't get. Love more. Drop the old story."

since I was about 8 years old I've looked up to Cher as a musician and for her fashion sense and her unapologetic attitude - I am absolutely loving this memoir. written in such a distinct Cher voice, (if you followed her on Twitter, you know!) I'm finding myself in awh at her childhood experience so far.

so far I'm enjoying listening to this - it adds such a special touch for me when the author narrates it. I've just began the chapter about the Chelsea Hotel and I'm loving learning about it.